This PPT aims to provide the concept of Axiology, ethics, and aesthetics. And Significance of Axiology in Education.

1. BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
AXIOLOGY
AND
AXIOLOGY AND EDUCATION
BY
MONOJIT GOPE
RESEARCH SCHOLAR

2. WHAT IS AXIOLOGY
Axiology, which stems from two Grrek words- “Axios” means “value, worth”
and “logos” means “reason/ theory/ symbol / science/study of”. Hence,
Axiology is the philosophical study of value and “value” originally meant the
worth of something. Axiology asks the questions: What is a value? Where do
values come from? How do we justify our values? How do we know what is
valuable? What is the relationship between values and knowledge? What
kinds of values exist? Can it be demonstrated that one value is better than
another? Who benefits from values? etc.

3. TYPICALAXIOLOGY QUESTIONS
TYPICAL ETHICAL QUESTIONS
 What is good/bad?
 What is right/wrong?
 What is the foundation of moral principles?
 Are moral principles universal?

4. TYPICALAXIOLOGY QUESTIONS
TYPICALAESTHETIC QUESTIONS
 What is a work of art?
 What is artistic creativity and how does it differ from scientific creativity?
 Why are works of art considered to be valuable?
 What do works of art communicate (if anything)?
 What is beauty?

5. BRANCH OF AXIOLOGY
Axiology has two main branches- Ethics and Aesthetics.
ETHICS
Ethics is the study of moral values and conduct. “How should I behave?” is an ethical
question. Ethical theory seeks to provide right values as the foundation for right
actions. What is good and evil, right and wrong? Is it ever right to take something
that does not belong to you? In many ways, ethics is the crucial issue of our times.

6. BRANCH OF AXIOLOGY
AESTHETICS
Aesthetics asks such questions as “What is beautiful?” and “What should I
like?” How do we recognize a great piece of music? Art? Can there be beauty
in destruction? Aesthetics is the realm of value that searches for the principles
governing the creation and appreciation of beauty and art in both “the higher
arts” and the things of daily life, such as school architecture, television
programs, and billboards. Evaluations of beauty and ugliness fall into the
aesthetic realm.

7. EDUCATION AND AXIOLOGY
Our contemporary age is an age of great confusion and turmoil. Wars and conflicts continue
unabatedly, and innumerable alarming and tragic phenomena, including terrorism, destruction, arson,
kidnapping, murder, drug abuse, alcoholism, sexual immorality, family breakdown, injustice,
corruption, oppression, conspiracy, and slander, are occurring worldwide. At the vortex of this
turmoil, humankind’s most valuable assets are now almost obliterated. It is referring to the loss of
personal human dignity, the loss of time-honored traditions, the loss of the dignity of life, the loss of
mutual trust among people, the loss of the authority of parents and teachers, and the list goes on. In
this context education plays an important role for inculcating the value (such as- truth, beauty and
goodness etc.) and transmitting from one generation to another through its curriculum.

8. EDUCATION AND AXIOLOGY
1. Axiology, by projecting a system of values, proposes educational aims under the
form of axiological objectives and ideals.
2. Axiology comprises both general human or universal and specific values for a
determined community, thereby giving it its personality. Education preserves and
transmits values that guarantee the cultural identity of the human community.
3.The performance of values requires knowledge and experience, which means the
involvement in this process of education on its two interrelated planes: cognitive and
emotional.

9. THANKING YOU